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Daily Mail:

Up to eight police officers and civilian staff are suspected of links to extremist groups including Al Qaeda.

Some are even believed to have attended terror training camps in Pakistan or Afghanistan.

Their names feature on a secret list of alleged radicals said to be working in the Metropolitan [London's police agency -- Blogmeister] and other forces.

The dossier was drawn up with the help of MI5 amid fears that individuals linked to Islamic extremism are taking advantage of police attempts to increase the proportion of ethnic staff.

Astonishingly, many of the alleged jihadists have not been sacked because - it is claimed - police do not have the “legal power” to dismiss them.

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Instead, the staff who are under suspicion are unofficially barred from working in sensitive posts and are closely monitored. Political correctness is blamed for the decision not to sack them.

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As a result of the Stephen Lawrence public inquiry report, which accused the Met of being “institutionally racist”, Scotland Yard has in recent years employed thousands of officers and civilian staff from the ethnic minorities in an attempt to reach recruitment targets. [Emphasis Added]

It appears that “positive action” (British parlance for affirmative action) isn’t so positive. Keep in mind that this article is coming from the same tabloid that glosses over non-white crime and violence, genuflecting to syringes and guns.

KSDK-NBC-5:

DETROIT (AP) — Julian Bond wants people to understand that when the NAACP symbolically buries the N-word on Monday, the effort will be led by the younger members of the venerable civil rights organization.

“Seven young people are on our board of directors, and they are spearheading this initiative,” said Bond, the group’s chairman. “This is the continuation of a long fight against the denigration of African-Americans in popular culture. If it’s someone black or someone white, it’s equally wrong.”

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“Images reflected in songs and music videos that show half-dressed African-American women being objectified or demeaned by men, or young African-American men as thugs must stop,” NAACP youth and college division director Stefanie L. Brown said in a news release. “These kinds of images promote hurtful and false stereotypes of young African-Americans.”

For once, we seem to be having an NAACP convention that makes not a single mention of Confederate flags. Though progress might be coming too late for the NAACP, as they recently announced budget cuts and a 40% reduction in staff.

When they will symbolically bury anti-white pejoratives, like the C-word and the H-word, remains to be seen, but hopefully they can do it before they declare bankruptcy.

More than 8,000 people are expected to attend the convention. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff will speak at a dinner Tuesday, and a presidential candidates’ forum will be held Thursday. Bond said all Democratic candidates have confirmed participation.

The irony of Chertoff boarding this Titanic after it has rammed the iceberg is too much. He is the head of a Federal department called “Homeland Security,” and the NAACP is said to represent the racial minority in American whose criminality is most acutely responsible for diminishing the security that people feel in their homes and communities. In a more pedantic sense, the NAACP continues to oppose racial profiling, and the refusal to do so has in the past, and will in the future, preclude(d) law enforcement from squelching terrorist plots.